Current Affairs Quiz - April 2022

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About sixty Artificial Intelligence-based cameras are to be installed around the Kozhikode city of Kerala, as a part of the State-level road safety project.
This step is to be implemented for the purpose of exposing traffic rule violations and book them with solid digital evidence. Across the State, there will be 726 cameras linked to special control rooms of the enforcement squads. The state government will spend ₹225 crore for the project.

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Haryana Agriculture Minister launched the portal of ‘Mukhya Mantri Bagwani Bima Yojana.’ Under this scheme, farmers will be compensated for the damage caused to their crops due to natural calamities.
21 crops including 14 vegetables, 2 spices and five fruits are covered under this scheme. As per the agriculture department, Rs 10 crore will be kept by the state government as initial capital for the scheme.

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Indian space tech start-up Pixxel successfully launched its first fully-fledged commercial satellite apparently called ‘Shakuntala’ or Pixxel TD-2.
The satellite was launched with Elon Musk-run SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-4 mission from Cape Canaveral in the United States. The satellite hosts one of the highest resolution hyper-spectral commercial cameras.

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Ministry of Finance oversees the ‘Stand Up India Scheme’, which aims to promote entrepreneurship among women, Scheduled Castes (SC) & Scheduled Tribes (ST) categories, to help them in starting a Greenfield enterprise.
The scheme has completed six years and loans worth more than ₹30,160 crore have been sanctioned in the last six years. Over 1.33 lakh new entrepreneurs have been facilitated and more than 1 lakh women promoters have benefitted from this Scheme during the last six years.

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Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal announced that India’s merchandise exports rose to a record high of USD 418 billion in the 2021-22 fiscal.
The rise is due to the higher shipments of petroleum products, engineering goods, gems and jewellery and chemicals. India’s goods trade (exports and imports) crossed USD 1 trillion during 2021-22. India’s imports also touched an all-time high of USD 610 billion.

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Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr Jitendra Singh launched the “Mission Integrated Bio-refineries”, to accelerate innovation for renewable fuels, and chemicals for a low-carbon future.
It is a PPP (Public Private Participation) model initiative for ‘Clean Energy’. The scheme was soft launched by Dr Jitendra Singh in November 2021 at the COP26 side event at the Mission Innovation Annual Gathering.

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The 2022 update of the World Health Organization’s air quality database highlights that 99 per cent of the world population breathes air that exceeds WHO air quality limits.
The update also introduces ground measurements of annual mean concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), which is a common urban pollutant. As of now, over 6,000 cities in 117 countries are monitoring air quality.

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According to the latest data released by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), Chhattisgarh has the lowest unemployment rate in the country, at 0.6 per cent.
The country’s unemployment rate stood at 7.6 per cent in the same month (March). As per the data, Haryana has the highest unemployment rate at 26.7 per cent, followed by Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir. The state has launched various schemes including Suraji Gaon Yojana, Narva-Garva-Ghurva-Bari programme, Godhan Nyay Yojana, Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojana etc.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) during his address at the UN Climate Action Summit in 2019.
Madagascar has recently become the 30th country to join the India-backed CDRI. The CDRI is a global partnership that aims to promote the resilience of infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks.

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The 20-year old Iga Swiatek recently became the first Polish player become the Women’s Tennis Association World No.1.
She recently won the Miami Open to become the first player to sweep the first three WTA 1000 events in a season. Iga Swiatek became the first teenager to win Roland Garros in 28 years in 2020.